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Tobacco product containing a thermo-gelable .beta.-1,3-glucan-type polysaccharide

US4109663A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 7, 1975
Grant dateAug 29, 1978
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Expiry dateOct 7, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA24B15/14
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A smoking tobacco product, which is produced by incorporating in smoking material a thermo-gelable .beta.-1,3-glucan-type polysaccharide, either as the sole smoking material or as its partial replacement, has improved smoking characteristics such as flavor, taste and irritability, and its smoking material has improved physical properties such as thickness, wet-proof qualities, tensile strength, elongation and filling capacity.

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